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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 20 — Chapter 129

AV 20 129.1

एता अश्वा आ प्लवन्ते

etā aśvā ā plavante

These horses swim hither.

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These mares come springing forward to Pratipa Prātisutvana.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.2

प्रतीपं प्राति सुत्वनम्

pratīpaṃ prāti sutvanam

(they swim) upstream, against the current, toward the soma-presser.

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AV 20 129.3

तासाम् एका हरिक्निका

tāsām ekā hariknikā

Of these, one is a hariknikā (a tawny-yellow one).

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4. One of them is Hariknikā. Hariknikā, what seekest thou?

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.4

हरिक्निके किम् इछासि

hariknike kim ichāsi

O Hariknikā, what do you wish for?

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AV 20 129.5

साधुं पुत्रं हिरण्ययम्

sādhuṃ putraṃ hiraṇyayam

A good son, golden.

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6. The excellent, the golden son: where now hast thou aban- doned him?

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.6

क्वाहतं परास्यः

kvāhataṃ parāsyaḥ

Where did you cast away the one (you had) struck?

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AV 20 129.7

यत्रामूस् तिस्रः शिंशपाः

yatrāmūs tisraḥ śiṃśapāḥ

Where those three śiṃśapā trees (are).

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8. There where around those distant trees, three Sisus that are standing there,

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.8

परि त्रयः

pari trayaḥ

three round about—

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AV 20 129.9

पृदाकवः

pṛdākavaḥ

—adders (pṛdākus),

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10. Three adders, breathing angrily, are blowing loud the threatening horn.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.10

शृङ्गं धमन्त आसते

śṛṅgaṃ dhamanta āsate

They sit blowing the horn.

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AV 20 129.11

अयन्महा ते अर्वाहः

ayanmahā te arvāhaḥ

They went — great are thy (steeds?) coming hither.

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12. Hither hath come a stallion: he is known by droppings on his way,

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.12

स इछकं सघाघते

sa ichakaṃ saghāghate

He (?) seeks (it); he prevails against the assailant.

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AV 20 129.13

सघाघते गोमीद्या गोगतीर् इति

saghāghate gomīdyā gogatīr iti

"He is a match for the assailant, (worth) winning by cows, cow-gaining" — so (they say).

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14. As by their dung the course of kine. What wouldst thou in the home of men?

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.14

पुमां कुस्ते निमिछसि

pumāṃ kuste nimichasi

A man — where do you sink down?

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AV 20 129.15

पल्प बद्ध वयो इति

palpa baddha vayo iti

"Palpa, bound one, O bird" — thus.

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16. Barley and ripened rice I seek. On rice and barley hast thou fed,

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.16

बद्ध वो अघा इति

baddha vo aghā iti

"Bound for you (is) the evil" — thus.

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AV 20 129.17

अजागार केविका

ajāgāra kevikā

The little kevikā has awakened (or: has not awakened).

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18. As the big serpent feeds on sheep. Cow's hoof and horse's tail hast thou,

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.18

अश्वस्य वारो गोशपद्यके

aśvasya vāro gośapadyake

The horse's tail-hair (is) in the cow's hoofprint.

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AV 20 129.19

श्येनीपती सा

śyenīpatī sā

She (is) the mistress of the white(-falcon) — or: the white falcon is her lord.

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20. Winged with a falcon's pinion is that harmless swelling of thy tongue.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 129.20

अनामयोपजिह्विका

anāmayopajihvikā

Free from sickness (is) the little upajihvikā (ant).

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